Heck no!

Hetzner will increase their prices by April, still a good value

https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/

Check immich for self hosted and proton drive for cloud storage

I use Navidrome with symfonium and they’re great

I really like wireless headphones, my only gripe with them is the battery. The battery dies and there’s more €€€ wasted on another pair of headphones. The 3.5mm headphone jack at least gave us a choice to use 5€ buds without worries.

What can we practically do now as an average joe?

I switched from an iPhone to an OnePlus 13 this year and I’m happy with my choice. Check the new OnePlus 15(?) that’s launching these days

Mullvad is great!

Sorry, but their strategy is working on you

You can put a share send only and another receive only

Great, thanks!

What measures can we have to increase our independency on the se contractors but without skipping protection? Is a physical key enough?

• 2 laptops, 1 from work, 1 personal (used for school work)
• mini PC homeserver (nextcloud and immich)
• 2 smartphones (1 from work)
• smartwatch
• tablet for school work
• old MP3 player I use everyday at home

I use strengthlog, the free version is pretty complete and without ads

The pay also depends if you work for yourself or someone else. You can make a decent living working for yourself, but if you work for someone else on this area, you’ll be exploited, and exploited a lot!

At least Lenovo already has this option in some laptop models. I bought a Thinkpad last September and it had an option to buy it with Windows, Ubuntu or without any OS. It really should be the standard

Syncthing

Orion browser works good for me on iPad, no ads for years

Portugal caralho!

This is what is happening to me, I can’t force my folks to drop WhatsApp. Only a few have Signal